Zimmerwald movement Collection

Period 1914-1917, 1919 (1940)
Total size  2 microfilms
Consultation Not restricted

History

Group of anti-war internationalist socialists named after their first meeting in Zimmerwald, near Berne, 5-12 September 1915; a second conference was held in Kienthal in 1916 and a third in Stockholm in 1917.

Content

From the Schweizerische Sozialarchiv: correspondence of the Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz (SPS) with the International Socialist Bureau (ISB) and individual socialists concerning the preparation of the Zimmerwald Conference; minutes of the meeting of Italian and Swiss social-democrats at Lugano 27 April 1914; list of participants in the Kienthal conference 1916; letter by Robert Grimm to the SPS 1940. From the Arbetarrörelsen Arkiv: minutes of the meeting of the Rossijskaja Social-Demokratičeskaja Rabočaja Partija (RSDRP) 8 July 1917; minutes (in Swedish) of the International Socialist Conference in Stockholm 1917; list of adherents to the Zimmerwald Movement 1919; pamphlet (in Russian) `History of the Zimmerwald Conference in original documents' 1923;

Location of originals

Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, Zurich and Arbetarrörelsen Arkiv, Stockholm.